A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God’s attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her. There
is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the
pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you
may have right in your own family. Give
yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the
condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness. The
more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less
you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not
mortification, a penance. I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery. Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing. A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves. The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.
| SIMLE TRUTH ABOUT ME"Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray." "I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: ‘My son did this to me.’ I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: ‘I forgive my son.’ Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand." "When once a chairman of a multinational company came to see me, to offer me a property in Bombay, he first asked: ‘Mother, how do you manage your budget?" I asked him who had sent him here. He replied: ‘I felt an urge inside me.’ I said: other people like you come to see me and say the same. It was clear God sent you, Mr. A, as He sends Mr. X, Mrs. Y, Miss Z, and they provide the material means we need for our work. The grace of God is what moved you. You are my budget. God sees to our needs, as Jesus promised. I accepted the property he gave and named it Asha Dan (Gift of Hope). "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." "Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength." "There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic. We believe our work should be our example to people. We have among us 475 souls - 30 families are Catholics and the rest are all Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs—all different religions. But they all come to our prayers." "There are so many religions and each one has its
different ways of following God. I follow Christ: Make us worthy, Lord,
to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty
and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread,
and by our understanding love, give them peace and joy. Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. Editor's Pick Quotes by Great-Quotes.com |